Publications
Preprint Publications
Kiersten M. Ruff*†, Matthew R. King*, Alexander W. Ying, Vicky Liu, Avnika Pant, Whitney E. Lieberman, Min Kyung Shinn, Xiaolei Su, Cigall Kadoch†, and Rohit V. Pappu†. Molecular Grammars of Intrinsically Disordered Regions That Span the Human Proteome. bioRxiv. 2025. In revision at Cell (* Equal contributions)
Xiao Guo*, Mina Farag*, Naixin Qian, Xia Yu, Anton Ni, Yuefeng Ma, Wen Yu, Matthew R. King, Vicky Liu, Joonho Lee, Richard N. Zare, Wei Min, Rohit V. Pappu, and Yifan Dai. Biomolecular Condensates Can Function as Inherent Catalysts. bioRxiv. 2024. In revision at Cell (* Equal contributions)
2025
Tingting Wu*, Matthew R. King*, Yuanxin Qiu, Mina Farag, Rohit V. Pappu†, and Matthew D. Lew†. Single fluorogen imaging reveals distinct environmental and structural features of biomolecular condensates. Nature Physics. 2025. (* Equal contributions, † Co-corresponding)
Christian Hoffmann*, Kiersten M. Ruff*, Irina Edu, Min Kyung Shinn, Johannes Tromm, Matthew R. King, Avnika Pant, Hannes Ausserwoeger, Jennifer Morgan, Thomas Knowles, Rohit V. Pappu†, Dragomir Milovanovic†. Synapsin Condensation is Governed by Sequence-Encoded Molecular Grammars. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2025. (* Equal contributions, † Co-corresponding)
2024
Sean Wang†, Rohit Gupta, Ananya Benegal, Anushree Seth, Michael Vahey, Rajan Chakrabarty, Rohit Pappu, and Srikanth Singamaneni, Joseph Puthussery†, and Matthew R. King† A High-Avidity, Thermostable, and Low-Cost Synthetic Capture for Ultrasensitive Detection and Quantification of Viral Antigens and Aerosols. ACS Sensors 2024. († Co-corresponding)
Matthew R. King, Kiersten M. Ruff, Andrew Z. Lin, Avnika Pant, Mina Farag, Tingting Wu, Wei Ouyang, Matin Fossat, Matthew D. Lew, Michael D. Vahey, Emma Lundberg, and Rohit V. Pappu. Macromolecular condensation organizes nucleolar sub-phases to set up a pH gradient. Cell. 2024.
Matthew R. King, Kiersten M. Ruff, and Rohit V. Pappu. Emergent microenvironments of nucleoli. Nucleus. 2024.
2023
Andrew Z. Lin*, Kiersten M. Ruff*, Furqan Dar*, Ameya Jalihal, Matthew R. King, Jared M. Lalmansingh, Ammon E. Posey, Nadia A. Erkamp, Ian Seim, Amy S. Gladfelter, and Rohit V. Pappu. Dynamical Control Enables the Formation of Demixed Biomolecular Condensates. Nature Communications. 2023. (* Equal contributions)
Aidan J. Flynn, Kari Miller, Jennette M. Codjoe, Matthew R. King, and Elizabeth S. Haswell. Mechanosensitive Ion Channels MSL8, MSL9, and MSL10 Have Environmentally Sensitive Intrinsically Disordered Regions with Distinct Biophysical Characteristics in Vitro. Plant Direct. 2023
Sagar U. Setru*, Bernardo Gouveia*, Matthew R. King, Aaron Hamlin, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Howard A. Stone, and Sabine Petry. Acentrosomal spindles assemble from branching microtubule nucleation near chromosomes. Nature Communications. 2023. (* Equal contributions)
Jodi Kraus*, Sophie M. Travis*, Matthew R. King, and Sabine Petry. Augmin is a Ran-regulated spindle assembly factor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2023. (* Equal contributions)
2022
Renu Maan*, Louis Reese*, Vladimir A. Volkov*, Matthew R. King, Eli van der Sluis, Nemo Andrea, Wiel Evers, Arjen J. Jakobi, and Marileen Dogterom. Multivalent Interactions Facilitate Motor-Dependent Protein Accumulation at Growing Microtubule plus Ends. Nature Cell Biology. 2022. (* Equal contributions)
2021
Mohammad S. Safari*, Matthew R. King*, Clifford P. Brangwynne, and Sabine Petry. Interaction of spindle assembly factor TPX2 with importins-α/β inhibits protein phase separation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2021. (* Equal contributions)
2020
Matthew R. King and Sabine Petry. Phase separation of TPX2 enhances and spatially coordinates microtubule nucleation. Nature Communications. 2020.
2018
Jae-Geun Song, Matthew R. King, Rui Zhang, Rachel Kadzik, Akanksha Thawani, and Sabine Petry. Mechanism of how Augmin directly targets the γ-tubulin ring complex to microtubules. Journal of Cell Biology. 2018.
2016
Matthew King and Sabine Petry. Visualization and analysis of branching microtubule nucleation using meiotic Xenopus Egg extracts and TIRF microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology: “The Mitotic Spindle.” 2016.
2014
Matthew R. King, Leah Matzat, Ryan P. Dale, Su Jun Lim, and Elissa P Lei. The RNA-binding protein Rumpelstiltskin antagonizes gypsy chromatin insulator function in a tissue-specific manner. Journal of Cell Science. 2014.